About the Authors

Sanjay Basu

basus@stanford.edu

Affiliations Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Centers for Health Policy, Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Center on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Stanton Glantz

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Asaf Bitton

Affiliations Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christopher Millett

Affiliations School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, South Asia Network for Chronic Disease, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB SG CM. Performed the experiments: SB CM. Analyzed the data: SB SG AB CM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB CM. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: SB. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: SB SG AB CM. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: SB SG AB CM. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: SB SG AB CM.